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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- XII ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS
- XIII ARCHIMEDES
- XIV CONIC SECTIONS. APOLLONIUS OF PERGA
- XV THE SUCCESSORS OF THE GREAT GEOMETERS
- XVI SOME HANDBOOKS
- XVII TRIGONOMETRY: HIPPARCHUS, MENELAUS, PTOLEMY
- XVIII MENSURATION: HERON OF ALEXANDRIA
- XIX PAPPUS OF ALEXANDRIA
- XX ALGEBRA: DIOPHANTUS OF ALEXANDRIA
- XXI COMMENTATORS AND BYZANTINES
- APPENDIX On Archimedes's proof of the subtangent-property of a spiral
- INDEX OF GREEK WORDS
- ENGLISH INDEX
XIV - CONIC SECTIONS. APOLLONIUS OF PERGA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- XII ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS
- XIII ARCHIMEDES
- XIV CONIC SECTIONS. APOLLONIUS OF PERGA
- XV THE SUCCESSORS OF THE GREAT GEOMETERS
- XVI SOME HANDBOOKS
- XVII TRIGONOMETRY: HIPPARCHUS, MENELAUS, PTOLEMY
- XVIII MENSURATION: HERON OF ALEXANDRIA
- XIX PAPPUS OF ALEXANDRIA
- XX ALGEBRA: DIOPHANTUS OF ALEXANDRIA
- XXI COMMENTATORS AND BYZANTINES
- APPENDIX On Archimedes's proof of the subtangent-property of a spiral
- INDEX OF GREEK WORDS
- ENGLISH INDEX
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- A History of Greek Mathematics , pp. 110 - 196Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013